Indiana judge rules public can't access death records

2:45 PM,
Jan. 30, 2013

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EVANSVILLE - A southwestern Indiana judge has ruled that local health officials do not have to provide cause of death records to the general public.

The Evansville Courier & Press and a Pike County resident sued the Vanderburgh County Health Department after the health agency last May abruptly stopped including death causes in the information it provided to the newspaper.